brandoncor

Over the weekend I wrote a small web app that takes an RSS feed for a blog, grabs the feed, cleans up the HTML, strips out small irrelevant images and compiles them into an e-book with chapter anchors. It requires a Google login since it uses the Google Reader "API".

As an example, I was going on a long vacation and had recently discovered Paul Buchheit's blog. I used this tool (which was then just a Python script) to create an e-book and I literally read his blog "cover to cover".

It's still rough around the edges, but I figured I'd iron those out if at least one other person thinks they would use this.

For those interested, the hardest part of this project, surprisingly, was getting Google's OpenID+OAuth hybrid login working since I couldn't find any libraries that had it built in.

http://blog2kindle.com/

I'm going on a long vacation without a laptop and probably no internet connection.

For quite some time I've wanted to consume every single PG essay, so I wrote a script to compile them all into one clean Kindle (mobi) e-book with a table of contents, chapters, navigation, etc.

Would anyone be interested in this?

More importantly, PG: are you ok with me giving this out? I know you like to have analytics on each of the essays, so I would understand if you're opposed to the idea.